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Vuolas returns.

If only cookie had played fair to andrew and steve they might have kept him !

James was a very skilful and fast young rider around Ashfield, everyone who visited Ashfield could see that. He beat a lot of good riders in his first season with the club. He probably had only visited most away tracks twice at the most before joining the Tigers, so his away form wasn'ta complete surprise. To me he was a success and I'm really disappointed that he's not in next year's team.

Good to have Antti back.

As is often the case there are two sides to everything and right & wrong on both sides as I expect is the case here. However what puzzles me is that the rider stayed in contact with the club during his injury lay off and never raised a grievance despite having multiple opportunities to do so which is very odd. He obviously no longer wanted to ride for King's Lynn and wanted to be elsewhere. There is a narrative that Lynn are a shambles but plenty of experienced, quality riders are happy to ride for the club and return after leaving so it's obviously not the case. Sometimes people just don't click with eachother and can be on different pages, I suspect that is what happened here.

The constant topic policing around this forum is utter brain damage. It is incomprehensible for me to process that a grown adult would look at this topic and think ”the subject of discussion has deviated, I must intervene”. It’s genuinely the behavioural characteristics of someone who has a spectrum disorder.

IMO it's how it should and indeed used to be. Top riders in the Champ at reserve in the top league (or at the very most, second strings). But, sadly, those days are long gone.

I think any youngsters coming to Glasgow has a good chance to greatly improve, with the 2 tracks big and small and unrestricted track time they would have a great chance to really develop.

Very happy with the team building so far a good scoring reserve and the 2 riders who in my opinion needed to be back after we gave them a start in British Speedway it’s only right we benefit from them in 2025.

Enter Peter Kildemand

Different era but surely Zenon Plech, maybe Eddie Jancarz too.

Still would of been a lot stronger if we'd kept cookie instead of batchelor. But Not a bad start to team building, although will be some disappointed when Jye Etheridge is announced 😕

As much as it pains me to say this, if the rumoured lineups elsewhere are close to true I would fancy that Glasgow team as comfortable favourites to make the play offs and challenge for silverware.

Good to see a line has been drawn under the matter. I know Alex is passionate about his speedway, and the Stars. And maybe sometime in the future he could be involved again in some capacity.

4.08 from reserve to 5.51 mainly in the top 5 is a huge jump. You are doing Pearson a disservice.

Hound? What an overreaction. Foord’s erratic racing style is fantastic for the sport; it’s a talking point. His attitude after the crashes at Poole, while questionable, was entertaining. People love to hate characters like Foord and it’s an essential aspect of competitive sport. The poster who created this topic evidently did so, tongue-in-cheek. For you to then raise the subject of mental health is utterly mind-numbing. Give yourself a shake.

I find all this riveting reading, but what does it have to do with Poole 2025??

I doubt he will fit, rumour is they are getting Tate.

You’re all wasting your time I’m afraid. They won’t have it that it can possibly be anything other than the rider that walked out who is totally to blame. Kings Lynn and the bloke that runs it are of course totally blameless. It had nothing to do with them, obviously.

Absolute guff.

You can't ride with a break and it was a bad one.... A broken promise

New episode of the Pride Of The East Podcast discussing the class of 2025 with Rob Lyon, Dale Allitt and skipper Nicolai Klindt: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1JrflzvvwGaMeWWoPYNe5F?si=URLdhpP9S3yfckLWmRUMTA

Neila.dont be having a pop at cammi.he made the best decision of the season releasing starke and meaning he could sign for the comets and help them nick a play off place from the tigers.

An exciting start to team building

Good rider, exciting to watch and on a 6.4 average. Welcome back Anti!

Hope the move works out for both Musielak & Brummies. Musielak had been reliable for Wolves, Swindon & Sheffield before his move to Kings Lynn last year, where it seemed to go very wrong. I've seen him unbeaten at Owlerton more times than I care to remember, less effective at Leicester, but seemed to have got to grips with the NSS after struggling first few times I saw him there. With the number of GP & ex-GP riders returning to British League racing I'm not sure Musielak qualifies as a genuine #1 any more though. Two other solid heat leaders are required.

weaker

100% Spot on. The new rules are utter garbage - If you want to open the opportunities up for the final ; do the Top 2 straight through and 3-6th place in Final Run off. This new format is dross !!

The GP series now using all the F1 sayings like P1, LCP1, Q1, FP1 gets right on my wick, I’ve got one for them FO

Sam Hagon and Dayle Wood GYOB

Batchelor Etheridge Vuolas Flint Zischke Foord McGurk

I thought he'd be on a 5 mate but not too sure

Yes, just a stupid high jinks drunken mistake. I do not work at a hospital. Just to clear that up.

This subject is just a matter of opinion.That was mine.

I'll have to disagree with the idea behind this comment "you could easily set it up so Leon had an easier role" Flint has a 6.85 average, which is 3rd heat leader standard in the current Championship era, if I felt I had to set up the riding order to give a "3rd heat leader" an easier ride then I'd have to question why he's in the team. I'd suggest, it should be Boughen who gets the easier role, a 17 year old in only his second full year in the Champ.

See edit 😊

We'll see.

Is "Mr Trackside-View" hyphenated on your birth certificate?

Could Peter try and convince Huckenbeck to ride for the Spires? German Connection and Riss is likely to be at No.2 for the Spires.

Do not see why you would have Starke over Foord, Foord is only a fraction higher and cannot see the averages being so tight that would make the difference. I think they have other plans.

I'm 50/50 on Flint, I'm fine if he's on the team especially if the team is built where he can ride at 3 or 4 but I'd also be completely fine if he isn't back. He showed improvement but only really near the end of the season and his consistency wasn't always the greatest.

Haven’t looked back at all the thread to be honest, just came up in a conversation

I think they mean 8 points each meeting not every two 😄

Is this a wind up about him being in hospital?. Would have thought it a breach of patient confidentiality to give this information.

Ill have been up 3 hours by then

I think that Poole have dropped a big clanger here, time will tell...

I like the current format. I don't have a problem with H15 being a re-run of H13. But I do hate it when there is a "super-heat" and the same riders can be chosen as H15. Wouldn't it give team managers something to think about if your H15 choices couldn't be used in a subsequent super-heat? Wouldn't it be great - for the riders, and the fans - if 2 of their weaker riders were given the chance to get the glory?

Screensport were great back in the day with Dave Lanning. "And a why thy droive from the starrrrt!" Also have to mention that pre-digital era, I used to manually turn my dish a few degrees to the left (North East I think) and pick up Polsat for free. Along with some,err, Dutch channels..............